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AVR®32 Studio is an integrated development environment for writing, debugging and deploying AVR32 applications. AVR32 Studio is distributed by Atmel® free of charge, and runs on both Windows® and Linux®. AVR32 Studio is Built on Eclipse™, enabling integration with third party plugins for increased functionality.
AVR32 Studio 2.1 is a minor upgrade from 2.0 series containing bug fixes, general improvements and new features.
AVR32 Studio is supported under the following configurations.
AVR32 Studio has not been tested on computers with less resources, but may run satisfactorily depending on the number and size of projects and the user's patience.
AVR32 Studio does not support Windows 98, NT or ME.
The software can be found on the AVR32 Technical Library DVD, or downloaded from Atmel's website at http://www.atmel.com/products/avr32/ under the "Tools & Software" menu.
It is not possible to upgrade to 2.1 from AVR32 Studio 2.0.x. Different versions of AVR32 Studio can co-exist without interference.
Workspaces containing projects built with earlier versions of AVR32 Studio should not be used directly with AVR32 Studio 2.1. It is recommended that a new workspace is created for 2.1, and that any projects from earlier workspaces are imported using the File > Import function.
IMPORTANT: Due to changes in the project types used in 2.0.2, Linux projects created with 2.0 must be converted in order to modify the toolchain settings. To convert a project, right-click the project in the Navigator view and select 'Convert To...'.
After successfully installing AVR32 Studio 2.1 (see below) and migrating to the new workspace, earlier versions (2.0.x or older) can be uninstalled using the "Add or Remove Programs" (Windows), and optionally deleting remaining files from the installation directory. On Linux, simply delete the installation directory. It is also recommended that the old AVR32 GNU Toolchain is uninstalled using "Add or Remove Programs" on Windows.
AVR32 Studio 2.1 has enabled automatic searching for updates when it is started. When the updates are found AVR32 Studio will display a dialog indicating that new updates are available. To upgrade, click the Yes button.
If the automatic update feature has been disabled, a manual search can be executed from the menu Help > Software Updates > Update.
Please read the What's New section for more information about changes since previous versions.
The AVR32 Studio installer can be downloaded from the website as noted above. After downloading, double-click the AVR32Studio-2.1-Setup.exe file to install. If you wish to specify the location where the AVR32 Studio software is installed, choose "Custom Installation". The installation software will install a Sun Java Runtime Environment on your computer if it is missing.
AVR32 Studio requires the AVR32 GNU Toolchain which contains the compiler, linker and utilities for programming the target. The latest AVR32 GNU Toolchain can be found at the same location as AVR32 Studio. Please install the AVR32 GNU Toolchain according to installation instructions given in the accompanying release notes.
On Linux, the AVR32 Studio IDE is distributed separately from the AVR32 GNU Toolchain which can be installed as RPM or Debian packages depending on the distribution. AVR32 Studio is available as a ZIP archive which can be extracted using the unzip utility.
IMPORTANT! The Java runtime environments shipped with many Linux distributions are not compatible with AVR32 Studio. A Java Runtime (or JDK) 1.5 or 1.6 is required. Consult your Linux distribution's documentation for instructions on installing Sun Java, or download it from Sun's website at http://java.sun.com/. Specifically, any reference to a Java version 1.7 indicates that an incompatible version is being used.
We recommend installing AVR32 Studio into a directory which is writable for the user(s). This simplifies the process of adding or updating the product. On a single-user machine, you can typically extract the AVR32 Studio ZIP file into your home directory. This creates an avr32studio directory containing the product files.
To run AVR32 Studio, execute the avr32studio program from the avr32studio directory. If you experience problems, make sure the correct java is being used by running java -version which should give output similarly to this:
java version "1.6.0_03" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode, sharing)
You can install Sun's Java on Ubuntu using the following commands from a shell:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre
Note that you may need to set the environment variable MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to the folder containing your Firefox install. e.g.
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4
or, if using a tcsh:
setenv MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.4
in order for the welcome page to work.
For support on AVR32 Studio please contact mailto:avr32@atmel.com.
Users of AVR32 Studio are also welcome to discuss on the AVRFreaks website forum for AVR32 Software Tools.
AVR32 Studio is distributed free of charge for the purpose of developing applications for AVR32 processors. Use for other purposes are not permitted; see the software license agreement for details. AVR32 Studio comes without any warranty.
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